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1 The revenue from the tax , currently around £1.2 billion per year , is intended to subsidize projects using alternative fuel sources , but at the moment more than 90 per cent goes to the nuclear industry ( which is why the tax is often called the " nuclear levy " ) .
2 In villages , educational workers would drag women out of their houses to attend mass literacy classes , in others the cadres of the party kidnapped the wife of the mullah on the grounds that , wherever she went , other women would follow .
3 Organizations that have horizontal and adaptive structures are able to meet the changes in market need more readily than those with cumbersome hierarchical structures , and create multifunctional development groups to plan new product developments .
4 RTMAS integrates three software components : GURU , an expert system ; AUTOBOX , a time-series module ; CROSSTALK proprietary software for transferring traffic count data from roadside counters to the IBM PS2 .
5 Hundreds of couples ignored the new secular ceremony instituted by the 1653 Marriage Act and sought out clergymen to conduct clandestine church weddings for them .
6 THE Stock Exchange is considering a change to its Yellow Book rules to enable young biotechnology companies to be floated in London even if they are years away from making profits .
7 In the long term , electronic scanning and linking to an image database could provide a secure back-up to the herbarium collection , a means of transmitting images to other institutions , and a method for collaborative working between institutions using real-time computer conferencing .
8 Laetacaras make good community fish , general or dwarf cichlid community , but must have sufficient territory if other cichlids are present .
9 Ads warning : Companies which advertise misleading or non-existent job vacancies using premium rate telephone lines face a total ban if they fail to clean up their act , watchdog the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Telephone Standards , warns today .
10 The 20mm and 40mm quick-firing guns here were in or on concrete emplacements , and although the crew of the outer guns were knocked out for a time the Germans got this battery firing again , and the searchlight on the Mole 's tip was never put out .
11 And while research continues to build up a clearer picture of the distribution of radon across the country , environmental health officers are hoping that the new results will encourage local authorities to enforce strict building regulations .
12 It 's played on smaller courts using light plastic rackets and foam balls , so very young children can join in .
13 Indeed in some cases , where needs and resource assessments ( upon which GREAs are calculated ) are particularly severe , authorities lose all grant entitlement even before their expenditure reaches GREA .
14 A voucher scheme has been introduced to encourage coach tour operators to include Historic Scotland properties in their itineraries .
15 The new textbook is the second one to have emerged since the crisis of early 1988 when the authorities announced that school graduation exams in history were being abolished .
16 Forms to arrange direct debit payment are available on request .
17 English clubs suffer triple knockout blow .
18 Programmes to promote pan-European business networks and companies , especially for SMEs .
19 A party that did not choose this platform ( e.g. for ideological reasons preferring less government spending ) would be defeated if the other did .
20 To the Englishmen who have used their time and talents to restore this control tower , we are most grateful .
21 Miller and Reddy ( 1987 ) give a number of subroutines in the Pascal language for the production of maps using different map projections , and illustrate their use .
22 Nevertheless , not all researchers favour flat organisation structures .
23 The new Statement now requires plans to report all investment contracts issued by insurance enterprises or other entities at fair value , except where they incorporate mortality or morbidity risk .
24 I can then produce a programme that provides a framework to meet your future financial plans using Allied Dunbar products .
25 To overcome this problem many policy papers which examine population ageing produce a variety of projections using different fertility assumptions .
26 Charlton and Grilly went on to play together as Palace 's full-backs for four seasons , and it was no coincidence that in two of them Palace made serious , if unavailing , attempts to restore 2nd Division status to Selhurst Park , finishing as runners-up in both 1928–29 and 1930–31 .
27 The narrow street that led into the town was lined with tall , thin houses painted pale fruit colours — apricot , rasp-berry and greengage .
28 It was also reported that US proposals to conduct reciprocal verification measures prior to the conclusion of START had been accepted in principle by the Soviet Union .
29 The major changes affecting reporting accountants are the introduction of rules bringing controlled trust accounts within the scope of the accountant 's report , and changes to one of the rules that relate to interest on client money .
30 The big chains admitted that house sales could dry up between now and Christmas , as vendors refuse to accept drastic price cuts .
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